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How did Fianna Fail become the largest party?

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  • #32
    Liam Byrne
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    baalthor wrote: »
    Up until the 80s at least, you could identify where people stood by the newspaper they purchased.

    Where I come from it was:

    Irish Press: Fianna Fail

    Independent: Fine Gael

    Irish Times: "Protestants"

    Heaven help the person who unknowingly brought the "wrong" paper home!

    That might explain why I'm "different" to most........Dad used to buy The Examiner and both The Irish Independent AND The Irish Press....definitely both of the latter every Sunday.

    Now I wouldn't even bother with a Sunday "newspaper", and I'd only buy The Irish Examiner during the week.


  • #33
    Apogee
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    baalthor wrote: »
    I understand that, I was more making a point about the image that FF created.

    Politicians pretending they're "men of the people", salt of the earth types who came from average backgrounds, is hardly unique to FF.

    A case in point - The Daily Show, April 22, 4min 30s in:
    http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart/4od#3055734


  • #34
    steelcityblues
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    To answer the original question : the 'soft' republicanism factor - enough people still bought into it election after election, but the old Republican guard started to fade away after Lynch (born after 1916) became leader!


  • #35
    rightwingdub
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    steelcityblues wrote: »
    To answer the original question : the 'soft' republicanism factor - enough people still bought into it election after election, but the old Republican guard started to fade away after Lynch (born after 1916) became leader!

    FF executed more Republicans during the second world war than the sectarian unionist government in the North did, how anyone seriously believes that FF are a Republican party is absolutely mind boggling.

    FF have a vested interest in ensuring that partition remains in Ireland.


  • #36
    goat2
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    loldog wrote: »
    FF for the farmers. The farmers dole, the repudiation of land annuities, that sort of thing.

    .
    right now i dont know
    they are going to stop turfcutting
    can only spread manure certain times of the year
    one off houses for family member are quickly becomong a thing of the past
    it is the big businessmen who can build 100 houses at a time


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  • #37
    danman
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    Oh, you've opened a hornets nest now.
    Did you not know, one off housing is evil?


  • #38
    goat2
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    danman wrote: »
    Oh, you've opened a hornets nest now.
    Did you not know, one off housing is evil?
    no evil in that.

    there are green belts ruined with houses by the hundred put into one small place, now no one want them
    oh la la


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